2026
Vasalou, A., Gauthier, A., Coskun, A., Xei, M. and Deng, W. (in press). Children's Creative Engagement in Hybrid Nature Crafting: Materiality-Meaning-Connection. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Singapore, June 2026.
Gauthier, A., Vasalou, A., Dong, Y., Xiong, S., and Rubegni, E. (in press). Digital Eco-Inquirers: Triggering children’s sustainability competences through inquiry-based learning involving physical computing. ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Bristol, June 2026.
Moors, T. & Himonides, E. (2026). From silence into song: an art–science collaboration with survivor trees and laryngectomy singers. Frontiers in Psychology, 16:1747218, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1747218
Purves, R., Gold, N., Himonides, E., Arnott, E., & Baxter, H. (2026). Rethinking 21st century musicianship – a provocation. In Sounds of Climate Justice Study Day. University of Southampton. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/news/events/2026/02/sounds-of-climate-justice-study-day.page
2025
Purves, R. M., Himonides, E., & Arnott, E. (2025). Music, Technology, Education and Environmental Sustainability: An Overview of Findings from Recent Research in the UK. Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, 635–646. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17498106
Purves, R. (2025). Make Your Mark: Notes on Music Education Podcast: Episode 7: Environmental Sustainability (Music Mark) https://www.buzzsprout.com/2444495/episodes/17580676-7-environmental-sustainability
Purves, R., Himonides, E., & Arnott, E. (2025). Music, technology, education and environmental sustainability: An overview of findings from recent research in the UK. Poster presentation with supporting full paper presented at CMMR2025: 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, UCL East, London, November 3-10 2025.
Purves, R., & Arnott, E. (2025). Environmental sustainability practices in music hubs and services: final report. London: Music Mark. Retrieved from https://www.musicmark.org.uk/resources/environmental-sustainability-practices-in-music-hubs-services/
Gauthier, A., Vasalou, a., Londoño, AT , Wu, N., and Konyani, B (2025). Empowering Young Environmental Leaders: Designing Interactive Data Visualisation to Foster Children’s Agency in Eco-Schools. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 100749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100749
Ardila Echeverry, M., Gauthier, A., Hartikainen, H. and Vasalou, A. (2025). Designing for Digital Education Futures: Design Thinking for Fostering Higher Education Students' Sustainability Competencies. Sustainability, 17(10), 4289. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17104289
2024
Himonides, E., Johnson, C., Prior, H., & King, A. (2024). Music, Technology and Sustainable Praxis. Proceedings of Sempre MET2024 International Conference on Music-Education-Technology, 14–15 June 2024, page 76, ISBN: 978-1-905351-41-1, DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/WE2AV
Gomaa, O. & Gauthier, A. (2024). Chapter: Sustainability in Education Technology Design: Bridging Green Design and Education for Sustainability, in Advancing Multi-Sector Sustainability Through Policy and Innovation. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-2113-3.ch004
Purves R. & Himonides, E. (2024). Climate change and sustainability education in music: the current situation in England, Diskussion Musikpädagogik 102. Available on UCL Discovery.
Albar, R., Gauthier, A., & Vasalou, A (2024). A Playful Path to Sustainability: Synthesizing design strategies for children’s environmental sustainability learning through game-centred interventions. ACM interaction design and children conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3628516.3655797
Gauthier, A., Konyani, B., Tisnes Londoño, A., Wu, N., Vasalou, M. (2024). Participatory design of “Our Eco-Logbook”: supporting children’s climate action through interactive data visualisations. Extended abstract in ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3628516.3659376
Cumbo, B., Gauthier, A., & Vasalou. A. (2024). In the era of climate change: Exploring research at the intersection of children, emerging technology, and environmental sustainability. Extended abstract in ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3628516.3661153
Purves, R. & Himonides, E. 2024). ‘Towards environmentally-sustainable practices for teaching music with technology’, in Philpott, C. & Spruce, G. (eds). Debates in Music Teaching (2nd ed.). Routledge. Available via UCL Discovery.
Purves, R. (2024). Environmental sustainability practices in music hubs and services. In Music Mark Spring Summit 2024. Friends House, London. Retrieved from https://www.musicmark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Spring-Summit.pdf?x93871
Vasalou, A., Gauthier, A, Serta, A., Beşevli, C., Turner, S., Payler, R., Gill, R., McAreavey, K., Loukas, G., Liu, W., Beneito-Montagut, R. (2024) In Pursuit of Thermal Comfort: An Exploration of Smart Heating in Everyday Life. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103245
2023
Purves, R. (2023). Introducing climate and sustainability education to a programme of secondary music initial teacher education: a pilot workshop. In Conference on higher education and the climate crisis. Senate House, University of London. Retrieved from https://www.climate-uni.com/conference
Purves, R. (2023). Music education, environmental sustainability and climate change: a review of recent research, practice and innovation. In RIME 2023 - The 13th International Conference for Research in Music Education. Online. Retrieved from https://osf.io/tx45y/
Vasalou, A. and Gauthier, A. (2023). The role of CCI in supporting children’s engagement with environmental sustainability at a time of climate crisis. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100605
Alan M. Greaves, Aslı Öz, Gülşen Yegen, Veysel Apaydın & Caroline Gilby (2023) ‘Heritage education and active learning: Developing community and promoting diversity in Turkey’, Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage, 10:2, 144-161.
Greaves, M. L. and Apaydin, V. (2023). ‘Active Learning Protects Archaeology and Heritage’. Heritage Türkiye. Vol 13.
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